[Qt-creator] Refreshing the project tree

[André Pönitz]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:05:18PM +0000, Ziller Eike wrote:
> 
> On 16.09.2013, at 19:20, André Pönitz
> <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:32:58AM +0000, Hunger Tobias wrote:
> >>> Currently running qmake doesn't seem to update the project tree. If
> >>> running qmake did update it, that would be fine. I don't know if
> >>> there are other use cases where it may be desirable (or clearer) to
> >>> have a separate explicit "refresh project tree" button available.
> >> 
> >> That is correct: I am not aware of forcing a reparse short of touching
> >> a .pro file. [...] Or are you relying on wildcards here? That would be
> >> strange, considering that you generate the code and could just add it
> >> to the .pro files while at it anyway.  But even with wildcards it
> >> should be trivial to just touch any .pro/.pri file.
> > 
> > Giving the discussion I wonder whether this should simply be forced
> > when running Build->Run qmake explicitly.
> > 
> > This should ease Alfonso's pain and not really hurt other uses.
> 
> 
> Why not simply a "refresh project tree" item in the project's context
> menu? That shouldn't hurt anyone either and would actually be explicit,
> not a magic side effect of something that also does a whole lot more
> (like generating files in the build directory).

Sounds good to me.

Andre'